Schreiber’s controversial goal lifts U.S. over Canada in field worlds final
NETANYA, Israel — Head coach Randy Mearns accepts that Canada lost on the final play of the world field lacrosse championship, but he doesn’t have to like it.
Tom Schreiber’s third goal of the day came as time expired in the gold-medal game as the United States edged Canada 9-8 on Saturday. The Americans had control of the ball on an inbounds with nine seconds left in the fourth quarter and the score tied 8-8.
A discrepancy between the clock on the stadium’s scoreboard and the official timekeeper, however, led to confusion as to whether or not Schreiber had scored before time expired or if Canada still had time left to take a faceoff and potentially score.
“Chaos, pretty much,” Mearns said after the game. “It is what it is. Players play, coaches coach, referees referee. It felt to us that there was nine seconds on the clock and the play started and the clock (on the scoreboard) didn’t move for four seconds and then it went on and on and on and Team USA took a shot and there was four seconds left and we were like ‘how come we’re not already at zero?’